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lawyer on the line as you re being pulled over. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone bloodied and humiliated by a smaller but more nimble ukrainian military, russia appears to be adjusting its aims tonight. a new commander with a reputation for ruthlessness now in charge known to some as the butcher of syria amid gathering signs the eastern donbas region may be next to suffer under a brutal russian offensive word of russian troops massing for attack has sent a crush of civilians evacuating the region before they suffer the fates of places like mariupol where ukraine s president believes tens of thousands may have died, though there is no way to verify. president zelenskyy pleading for even more firepower from the west, and warning his citizens of an impending new push by the invaders as each day brings more evidence of civilians being systemically targeted. our gabe gutierrez is in ukraine with the very latest reporter: thi ....
if this faces not seem familiar, if you are not quite used to seeing somebody else at this hour, hello, it s nice to meet you, i m rachel. i ve been away from the show for a few weeks. i took a hiatus to give myself a little reset and also to work on some other msnbc projects that i ve got cooking. i gotta tell you, the hiatus has been fantastic. i am really grateful for it. i know it is an unusual thing to get in this business. i m very grateful to msnbc and the president for letting me do it. i m profoundly grateful to the staff on the show to keep everything running, we re doing such great work will always gone. and, as chris mentioned there, i am also grateful almost beyond words for ali velshi in particular, and for my other colleagues who filled in for me while i was away. if you can tell from the way that all the rest of us talk about him, you should know that all evil she really is a prince among men. he has been in ukraine and in bordering countries for five st ....
i have been away from the show for a few weeks. i took a hiatus to give myself a little recess and work on some other msnbc projects that i ve got cooking. i got to say you the hiatus has been fantastic. i m really grateful for it. i know it s hard to get in this business. i m grateful to msnbc and the president of msnbc for letting me do this. and grateful for the staff for doing such great work while i was gone and grateful beyond words for ali velshi in particular and other colleagues who filled in while i was away. if you can t tell from the way the rest of us talk about him, you should know that ali velshi is really a prince among men, he has been in ukraine and in bordering countries for five straight weeks. covering the war. hosting this show. hosting his own show. he has beenin doing incredible work. literally around the clock. all the while just being a great and generous and upstanding person and a great co worker to everyoneat who works with him a you should ....
i m profoundly grateful to the staff on the show to keep everything running, we re doing such great work will always gone. and, as chris mentioned there, i am also grateful almost beyond words for ali velshi in particular, and for my other colleagues who filled in for me while i was away. if you can tell from the way that all the rest of us talk about him, you should know that all evil she really is a prince among men. he has been in ukraine and in bordering countries for five straight weeks covering the war, hosting the show, hosting his own show. he s been doing incredible work literally around the clock. all the while, just being a great and generous and upstanding person, and a great coworker to everyone he works with. i m telling you, you should be so lucky to ever have a coworker as great as ali velshi. we are incredibly lucky to have him here at msnbc, and i m really grateful that he home things so ably while i was gone. i sort of feel like i have a big shoe to f ....
wow. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, april 12th. we begin with russian president vladimir putin turning to what looks similar to a stalin-esque purge within his government. although kremlin officials publicly claimed the war is going according to plan, behind the scenes about 150 agents from moscow s secret intelligence service, the fsb, have been, quote, purged since the war began. that s according to the times of london. some have been removed from their jobs, others arrested as putin looks to assign blame for russia s failures in ukraine. among those arrested, the head of the department directly responsible for overseeing affairs with ukraine. something all of those reportedly punished have in common is that they were all employed or formerly employed by a division once led by putin, the fifth service as it is called, was set up in the late 1990s to carry out operations in the countries formerly controlled by the soviet union. the goal ....